PowerColor Radeon X1650 PRO Video Card Review

ATI's aim at the low and mid-range with these new parts is to launch SKUs based around two new cores which can take back or hold their respective performance crowns, as well as offering reduced manufacturing costs. Replacing the aforementioned Radeon X1800 GTO we find the Radeon X1650 XT, which is based around the new, 80nm RV560 core, complete with twenty-four pixel shader processors via eight pixel pipelines. In the place of the Radeon X1600 XT comes the Radeon X1650 PRO, which can utilise either the 90nm RV530 core (in other words, simply renaming existing inventory of the current X1600 XT to X1650 PRO) or the new 80nm RV535 core, featuring twelve pixel shader processors and four fragment pipelines. Finally, what was the X1600 PRO becomes the X1300 XT, via either the renaming of existing X1600 PRO inventory or parts based around the same RV535 core as the X1650 PRO, albeit at lower clock speeds.